Provisional Partner &

Affiliate Member Commitments

Shared Beliefs and Values: Evana Network embraces the teachings of the Confession of Faith in Mennonite Perspective, 1995.God is the creator of all that exists. The Bible is our fully inspired and trustworthy guide for who God is, what God is doing in the world, and how we can live as God's people. Scripture also exposes the sin that holds us and our world captive to the forces of evil. We can find salvation through Christ alone. Through the atoning and victorious work of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection we may be reconciled to God.

All who open themselves to the Holy Spirit’s transforming power can experience forgiveness, healing, new life, and a new community of peace and joy. As baptized believers, we proclaim and live out Jesus Christ’s good news in a broken world. We gather regularly to worship and celebrate, discern God's will, give and receive counsel, bear one another's burdens, and be sent into God’s mission in the world. We seek to be peacemakers and wise stewards of the resources God has given us. Though we often fall short of God’s plan, the church is the foretaste and instrument of God's reconciling activity in the world. We look forward to the day when Jesus Christ will return to make all things new.

Mission: Evana Network invites people to faithful living in Jesus Christ by forming and enabling congregations to be healing and sending communities.

Vision: Evana Network seeks God’s direction in calling out and sending forth a growing, ethnically diverse community of believers, empowered by the Holy Spirit to transform the world and to be transformed through Jesus Christ’s reconciling work.

Promote daily living under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture.

Participate in Evana Network as a place of equipping for pastors and church leaders.

Express faith in ways that help others to know God through Jesus Christ.

Adapt to different cultural and social environments with sensitivity to the local community regarding appearance, conduct, values, and traditions.

Nurture the emotional, social, spiritual, and physical well being of our local community.

Adopt congregational values consistent with the biblical teachings of respect for all life including peacemaking, nonviolence, compassion, and stewardship of creation.

Adopt an approved evangelical Anabaptist confession of faith or theological statement as a congregational confession (evananetwork.org/cof)

Be committed to respecting and serving the local community.

Embrace sexual wholeness and reserve sexual activity for holy matrimony, a covenant between one male and one female for life, and refrain from supporting other sexual activity or practice.

Encourage self-control by helping people find freedom from pornography, substance abuse and other addictive behaviors.

Recognize God’s presence in the global church as well as in individual caring communities.

Commit to only calling pastors and leadership board members who have themselves made Evana's Personal Covenant during the provisional period.

We recognize that as an affiliate member or provisional partner of Evana Network, we are ambassadors. We represent Christ, the Christian church, Evana Network, and ourselves to everyone. By signing below, we acknowledge that we adopted this rule of life within our congregation as we affiliate with Evana Network.